Skip to main content

Mortal Gods - a three sided scrap

Polykratos ran his hands through the long grass, a shadow loomed over him, he shook himself awake.
"Alright porcupine?" Tychon the archer offered a hand to the Locargos, "Enjoying your nap?"
Leandros had an arm in a sling, never a good sign, and Polykratos's ears rang.
"Where are the Persians?"
"Pursuing the other Greeks, out boys holding the hill was enough of a discouragement. Plus, I think they used up their arrows on you two!" The archer whistled a jaunty tune as he walked away.
"Still not in Hades, Polykratos?"
"Still not in Hades, Tychon!" he grinned, slapping his second on teh back, and regretting it as his hand contacted armour.
Mark and I were joined by David at teh Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club for a three sided game of Mortal Gods. David had been threatening to get his stuff on table for a while, and we decided now was the time. Each of us took 400 points. My Thespians, Mark with Persians, and David with generic (and slightly illegal) Greeks. We went for a straight up fight, with a rough three way deployment. I got the hill, Mark the rock, David the crops, and the temple was all to play for.


Quickly David moved his heroes towards mine and Mark's warbands, while his troops lagged behind. Mark spread out, archers looking for sight lines, while my archers scrambled over the rocky hill, which had slowed up my hoplites quite a bit.


One of David's heroes was cut down by Persian and Greek missile fire (oops) and immediately drew the 'death' card! His Lochargos slammed into one of my Hoplite blocks, causing two wounds a stand of brave Thespians. Polykratos put his efforts into getting the Hoplite phalanx formed up to boost the grunts protection. Tychon decided to get involved, personally!


Quickly wounding the Greek general and forcing him back.


Then David's slingers tried to hit Tychon, who took umbridge and went off to give them 'a severe talking too'! Polykarpos walked round the back of the phalanx, and the archers also drew a bead on the Greek hero.


Polykratos showed what he was made of, cutting down David's Greek hero.


This broke David's warband, as this was his last hero (Mark's Immortal hero had cut down his final hero). Now it was my Thespians vs Mark's shooty horde. Polykratos took down Mark's Immortal hero (after Tychon rolled 6 hit, followed by 6 shields, ie six massive misses), but he passed his 'Test of honour' and despite a broken shield arm, he sprang back up. Pushing him back revealed my heroes to the volley after volley of Persian shots. He struggled up, but Mark's archers had lazer designators.


My archers tried to keep pace with Mark's shooting, but it was not good enough. Polykarpos fell again. Even having a holy wind chime that restored wounds, did not help.

His heroes leapt the temple walls and fell upon Tychon, wounding his sword arm. Nearly all those units out there shoot!
 

My peltasts had slowly been nibbling away at the immortals on the far left, but heroic combat would decide this game.


And it was Mark who felled Tychon, victory to the Persians. David had fallen into the trap of advancing heroes without infantry support. If I had been able to get in on his foot with my hoplites on his lighter foot, I might have squished him.
Another great game, it was David's first, but we have all agreed to give it another go in two weeks, with a fourth player, so two games each in an evening.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

The random miniatures in my lead pile thread

Hi all, As the months go on, I am finding more random stuff that does not fit into any catagory is creeping it's way up to the surface of my lead mountain. I decided a few years back, rather than just throw it back like one of Nobby's escaped socks, I would actually paint some of them   Mimic from Bad Squiddo Gribbly Sushi? Catch of the day!   Another Grenadier 1984 from Brian's collection - possible Flesh Golem? Pants! Quick job, but fun   TT Combat Halfling adventuers, a barbarian, a fighter, a ranger (with squirrel), a mage, and a bard (with bagpipes) Rough bunch Distancing themselves from the Bard! Fireball!   Really random. Converted GW 1990s halfling on a Ral Patha sheep - a ram raider! There are quite a few more of these to do, but this one fell off the lead pile while I was looking for something else. He ...

6mm Pony Wars commission for a friend.

Friend asked me to do his Pony Wars kit now that Baccus have taken it over.  Painted quite a lot of dismounted native foot too! Top view Singles Why is there a Squeeze song going through my head. Sneaking up on the cavalry Back view Heading out Pairs The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass The cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass The squaw is with the corporal, she is tied against the tree She doesn't mind the language, it's the beating she don't need Threes She lets loose all the horses when the corporal is asleep And he wakes to find the fire's dead and arrows in his hats Or something like that Here we go Sixes Top view Left view Snipping or sniping 8s Lefts Backs Right Missed two bases of US cavalry Going that way Ready to go Scouting This is going to end badly for the cavalry   [img]https://i.imgur.com/k1iK9pV.jpg[/img] Mounted US troopers for Keith. The pairs Top view Off they go. Player...

Legion Imperialis 8mm - Civitas ruins boxed set.

Terrain box (Civitas ruins) painted up Honestly took me longer to build it than it did to paint! But there may be a reason for that Someone needs a word with their structural surveyor! I mean, the build quality here is awful. At least the marines will have somewhere to hide It's about an A3 of ruined stuff It's been trashed Comes with a lot of scatter  The rest of the club was doing it, so I had to do it!  Looking through the various Legions from the Horus Herasy, I decided... Nope. Don't like them. Stick to what you know. 'Stick 'Em In The Eye - It's the Emperor's Pointy Sticks' So, seven years after I painted the 'Emperor's Pointy Sticks' in 6mm, GW have released Legion Imperialis in 8mm. Marine booster pack painted up, group photos! Mixed bag About 100 extra points on table!  "Did I miss the photoshoot?" *FACEPALM* These are the ones I've be...